Aoud
A single rose commands the opening of Aoud, clear and high-pitched, before the fragrance descends into a dense thicket of spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Oud
- Saffron
- Clove
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readA single rose commands the opening of Aoud, clear and high-pitched, before the fragrance descends into a dense thicket of spice. Saffron, cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg arrive in sequence rather than all at once, each distinct against the oud — which reads less smoky than resinous, closer to aged wood than petrochemical char. Honey and patchouli ground the dry-down, the overall effect shifting from elaborate to intimate.
This is a perfume for still evenings, suited to the wearer who wants a thoroughgoing oriental without the harshness that sometimes accompanies oud.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.



